8:46 AM,
Apr. 6, 2014

Written by

Deborah Barfield Berry
Gannett Washington Bureau

Sen. Mary Landrieu and other Democratic women in Congress are calling on their colleagues to support legislation that aims to eliminate the pay gap between men and women.

That gap is wider in Louisiana than in all other states except one, according to a study by the National Women's Law Center.

"This is not a government program,'' Landrieu, D-New Orleans, said at a press conference this past week. "This is a woman's program to earn a fair paycheck for the work that she is doing and is being denied because there are not strong enough laws on the books to protect her.'' ...